Anyone built their own internal wardrobes? Recommended suppliers?

[Buffman]

Hi all,

Anyone built their own internal wardrobes? I had a design and price from Hammonds but to be honest their proposal was really uninspiring.

I quite fancy splitting the wardrobe down the middle with right hand side 2 sets of rails. The upper hanging rail will need a pull down system similar to this (recommendations welcome).

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The total height (usable height) is around 2.1m and width 1.6m




If I had the system similar to above would i need to make a stud frame in the centre to make it robust enough to take weight? Or could it be done just with end panels?

As I've just opened up the studwork I can add extra noggins in for connections now.

I was considering using this company.

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Im going to get the room replastered/reskimmed.









** not the layout I want, as seems very basic

 

[Buffman]

@fobose that looks good.

I'd be looking at the Ikea Pax stuff first, so much cheaper than the quotes we had for simple runs of straight wardrobes.

To me that sketch above simply looks like a shelving unit and then a couple of rails to the right would get what you wanted.
Ikea do normal and sliding doors

Aye ill have a look but to be fair I'd rather pay a bit more for something "premium" and I suspect a pax wouldn't work as I'll need to cut a number of cover panels to make it look integrated.

Ive attached a better visual of what I'm after below.

 

[Buffman]

Pax is pretty decent quality to be fair, unless you are using fancy wood, i cant see anything MDF based being much more premium than a PAX set.

Fair point, I guess the issue with a pax set is they will come in standard 150 size (too short) or 200 width which is too long. It's also slightly deeper (58cm which means I'd start protruding into the room. Not insurmountable but possibly more effort to make it look better integrated into the room.

 

[Buffman]

I had a look at pax, but preferred the option of completely custom as it allows me to pre plan/got very little depth in the wardrobe to work with. I had a look at that "my slidint wardrobe company and looks pretty good/helped me with queries.


Haven't ordered yet as I need the plastering done. Only thing I'm not sure on is if I should dot and dab the wall where Ive starred knocking out the plaster as it seems quite blown. Possibly easier for my plasterer to dab out the whole wall rather than sections.

Going to put extra timber supports in the studwork at the positions I need for the shelving units to back onto, and also generally to strengthen

 

[Buffman]

Dimensioned out what I want better so I could add studwork to the back the tie any cover panels too (screw straight in rather than hang from plasterboard)






This side will be supporting one side of the pull down rails. Does anyone think that 18mm centre piece will be sufficient down the middle? Could bolt through both sides if i can find the right bolts? Will be pull down rails both ends.

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Bought a new countersink set. Never had one like these before, wish I had bought ages ago!



Whole room is going to be plastered, with ceilings overboarded and the rest skimmed.

 

[Buffman]

Well I've started.....got most the internals in just realise I'll have to take the pull down shelf out to then fit the other shelf...

Initially I intended to put a veneer cover panel on the bottom section but to be honest I'll have to cut down the thickness to 9mm or so to do it... I could do it with a router across the whole back section just might take a while!

Anyone see any issues taking 9mm thickness out a 300mm by 1600mm panel? (or alternative ways to do it?)

 

[Buffman]

Scribed this board in nice and tight. Was in two minds and took me many hours but probably worth it. Looks like a good finish if I do say so myself

Just need to fit the wardrobe doors next

This was before thickness taken out

After

 

[Buffman]

Finished wardrobe, bit of cleaning up to do but glad it's finished!

Soft closers auto close it which is quite cool, ******* to set up considering no walls level and I wanted tight tolerances! Fortunately the pull down rails get down with about 2mm to spare

My dog just wants me to get carpet back upstairs